The opening chapters of both Colossians and Hebrews speak of Christ as the preexistent one through whom all things were created, therefore as distinct from the created order of things in both time and preeminence. The preposition before in the first chapter of Colossians apparently refers to both...
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionJesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.New Living TranslationJesus also did many other things. If they were...
16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He ...
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. Ephesians 1:2 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Colossians 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, vis...
Jesus is the paradigm of a quality of all created reality: to be a word exhaled by God that is called to return to Him. Jesus represents the model of the Sufi mystic who comes from Him, lives in Him, and returns to Him (Flaquer 2015). However, Jesus is the only one to receive th...
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. ...
God basically gives Job a virtual tour of the universe, describing all of the incredible things that he has created. We see here that Job doesn’t really have the vantage point by which to accuse God. In the next part of the episode (31:04-46:20), the guys talk about the Behemoth ...
"And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ...According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus, our Lord,"(Eph.3:9,11; Jn.14:20-21; Col.1...
God created Eve according to the seed-cycle picture inGenesis 2.[2]Adam is dirt and a lone seed falling to the ground, where God does a work by openings that pull out the stuff of that “giving all” – by which the living bride rises. She is of the same stuff of His descending,...
” Yet in all these thingswe are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate ...